Spread your wings and fly

I finally set my ass on the chair to continue blogging about my afternoon at the museum.
Read part one here! :D

After the Food Gallery, we proceeded to the Photography Gallery.
Let the pictures and the captions insertion along the way do the talking!

In this gallery, there were many interesting stories and pictures. Some depicting family generations and if I remember correct, some cultural information as well.
I didn't had time to read through the description of every single item, but looking at them is contented enough.
Here, it also shows the items that belonged to the past days.

Photography device. Those huge cameras that people in the past used, yes?

Side track for abit, did you watch this local production, It's a great great world/大世界, in 2011?
Personally I feel that it is a touching movie. It portrays how Singapore was like in the past (before the world war), e.g: restaurants and food + beverage, entertainment..
The story is being narrated by Olivia Ong who plays as a photographer from the present and uses photographs to search for people who were in it, these people will then speak of the 4 tales.
The story line revolves "4 tales centered around Singapore's legendary amusement park named Great World, which was known in Hokkien as Tua Seh Kai." The stories include:

1. A clown on a quest to have his photo taken with American starlet, Elizabeth Taylor
2. The tale of a carnival shooting gallery operator who experiences her first teenage love with a medicinal oil seller
3. A washed up diva who rediscovers love when she falls for her manager
4. A lok-lok seller who narrates his wedding to his mute wide.
- source.

Cameras anyone?

This is probably the first kinds of vintage filming device.
Extremely huge and heavy I reckon.

Next, we dropped by the Film and Wayang Gallery.

There are many colorful film poster, mostly in Chinese, Malay and some Tamil. Little English films in those days.
I guessed it was adapted from China like stories about the old folk tales or something.
The gallery also showed screens of movies, I think it was showing in Malay or Tamil.

Puppetry was once famous as well! This was the kind of entertainment that our ancestors watched.
Maybe they had very little discos/pubs or none at all.

There was also showcase of the wayang costumes, head gear and hair ornaments. It looked very heavy though!
Really cool ah! You usually watch it on television programmes, from China usually or rarely Singapore made films about the olden days, and now it is right in front of your eyes.